CfP Aesthetics of Protest and Legal Mobilization Riga, 28-29.05.2026 🔥 Please share 🔥 What forms of legal mobilization emerge from protest cultures, and how do they influence legal imagination? The event is organised with the Riga Performance Festival Starptelpa. More info 👇

Just spotted a new book with the marvelous this title. My God, what a wonderful, self-exposing choice. With friends like these, the EU’s rule of law hardly needs enemies.

🚨 New on @opiniojuris.bsky.social ! Please share. 🚨 Our Protest and Legal Mobilization symposium is live We kick off with the editors’ introduction, launching a global conversation on protest and law. 👉 Read the opening post: opiniojuris.org/2025/09/22/i...

Introduction to the Symposium on Protest and Legal Mobilization

[Jeff Handmaker is an Associate Professor of legal sociology at Erasmus University. Mikel Díez Sarasola is an Assistant Lecturer of constitutional law at the University of the Basque Country. Sanne…

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New Book on Political Aesthetics! Do populists and liberal democrats live differently—through clothes, food, or reading habits? Can aesthetic choices shape how people engage in politics? 👉The intro to the book: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 👉The book: brill.com/display/titl...

Thrilled to share my new article in the @euconst.bsky.social: "EU Mediation in Spain’s Judicial Council Crisis: Refining Dialogic Rule of Law within a Multilevel Constitutional Order" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My short analysis of the situation of Polish judges in the post-populist context from BetrifftJUSTIZ magazine is now available as a pre-print (in German) "Schrödingers Richter - Herausforderungen der Rekonstruktion des Rechtsstaats in Polen" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Next week at Erasmus School of Law, a screening of "No Other Land", an Oscar-winning documentary that captures life in the occupied West Bank. It's part of the "Human Rights and the Visual" series, which explores how HR are presented through visual arts. www.eur.nl/en/esl/event...

Human Rights and the Visual: Screening of ‘No Other Land’

“Human Rights and the Visual” is a new series of screenings and events aimed at investigating how human rights are perceived and experienced on the ground by...

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An urgent debate at Pakuis de Zwijger on populist lawfare in the US and EU today, building support structures for civil disobedience and doomscrolling with @sldelange.bsky.social, @karolinakocemba.bsky.social, @mstambulski.bsky.social and Scott Cummings

Just finished co-teaching Global Justice & Transnational Legal Mobilization at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati with @mstambulski.bsky.social 📚 Truly enjoyed the experience with an incredible group of ambitious, engaged, and passionate students💡💬

Coming soon in Amsterdam: A discussion on right-wing legal mobilization with leading experts. Details below! 👇

Pola Cebulak@polatoja.bsky.social · last yr.

How right-wing populists use lawyers and the law to implement their agendas? Join us for a discussion in Amsterdam on 21 March with Sarah de Lange, Scott Cummings, @karolinakocemba.bsky.social, Michał Stambulski. Here are a few pics that didn't become the event poster 😉 dezwijger.nl/programma/la...

Excited to share the preprint of a new paper with Jakub Szumski on liberal pedagogy and Poland’s constitutional transformation (1989–1997). This collab. between history & legal theory explores tensions between continuity & rupture in post-socialist const. history. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

📢 Excited to share that my and @mstambulski.bsky.social latest article "Populism, Non-State Actors, and Right-Wing Legal Mobilization in Europe," has been published in the International Journal of Law in Context and is now freely available to everyone www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I was today years old when I learned that Giorgio Agamben played an apostle in Pier Paolo Pasolini's movie and the world is somehow better now.

My few thoughts on the Polish rule of law restoration. “It seems that the sovereign, when it comes to the rule of law, is the one who determines who is a judge.”

Verfassungsblog@verfassungsblog.de · 2y ago

MICHAŁ STAMBULSKI (@mstambulski.bsky.social) looks at the situation of judges in Poland, and ponders what happens when judges are both legitimate and illegitimate at the same time. 👉 verfassungsblog.de/schrodingers... @democracyreporting.bsky.social

🔥 It's out! 🔥 Special Issue 'Populism and Right-Wing Legal Mobilization in Europe' The vol. is a collection of seven papers from excellent scholars from Italy, France, the Netherlands, Hungary, Poland, and the US that map right-wing legal mobilization in Europe. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Next week in Rotterdam! Dr. Piotr Echardt will be discussing his newly published book ‚Socialism under Construction: Law and Ideology in Housing, Construction and Spatial Planning in Poland 1944-1989’ (Scholar 2024). www.eur.nl/en/esl/event...

Seminar on 'Law and Ideology in Housing'

Seminar on the ideological factors influencing laws concerning housing, construction, and spatial planning in Poland during the socialist period.

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